{"id":19276,"date":"2026-07-20T18:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19276"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T18:09:29","slug":"journalist-reveals-chelsea-have-registered-interest-in-ac-milan-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19276","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Reveals Chelsea Have Registered &#8220;Interest&#8221; In AC Milan Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<p><strong>Chelsea have made an enquiry for AC Milan winger Rafael Leao, according to <em>SportItalia<\/em> reporter Gianluigi Longari.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writing on his X account, Longari said that there has been \u201cpurely exploratory interest\u201d from the Blues, but they have yet to make a formal offer.<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray and Fenerbahce are said to be very keen on Leao, but the Portuguese international may need to be swayed with a big contract offer to make the move to Turkey. He was hoping to stay in one of the Big Five European leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Despite declaring earlier this summer that he wanted to leave the San Siro, it is believed he will travel with the rest of Milan\u2019s squad for the pre-season tour of Australia.<\/p>\n<h2>Milan have set their asking price for Leao<\/h2>\n<p>It has been reported that the Serie A giants would sell the 26-year-old for around \u20ac60m (\u00a351m), but so far, no team has been willing to meet the valuation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sra_unit\"><link rel=\"stylesheet\" id=\"block-sra\" href=\"https:\/\/chelseanews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/snack-related-articles\/dist\/css\/snack-related.min.css?230424-120159\" type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\"\/>\n<aside class=\"sra-group sra-related-list\">\n<h2 class=\"sra-group-head\">Most Read on Chelsea News<\/h2>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>With Leao determined to leave Italy, and the Rossoneri seemingly desperate to sell, it would not be a complete surprise if the player is sold for a lower fee before the transfer window closes.<\/p>\n<h2>Do Chelsea need to sign another forward?<\/h2>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" v=\"f216f6d5d0b6ef819f6e02bf8357cefd\" image-id=\"WmOBPiUKTxLf\" theme=\"iy-theme\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; aspect-ratio: 1.499275812124974; max-width: 7246px;\"\/><!-- https:\/\/smartframe.io\/embedding-support --><br \/>Fans would be right to ask whether Leao should be a top priority after the club splashed out a club record \u00a3117m on Aston Villa\u2019s Morgan Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>There is a chance that the enquiry for the AC Milan forward was made BEFORE it became clear that Rogers would make the switch to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, you would think that the priorities of manager Xabi Alonso have now shifted to strengthening other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Adding a left wingback is likely to be top of the Spaniard\u2019s wishlist, along with a centre-back. It has been <strong>claimed<\/strong> that the London club are closing in on a deal for the latter.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have made an enquiry for AC Milan winger Rafael Leao, according to SportItalia reporter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}